Award Winning Korean Films at the Festival

Posted on October 26, 2010

International Award-winning Korean Films DOOMAN RIVER and EIGHTEEN.

Korean Chinese auteur Zhang Lu’s DOOMAN RIVER is a powerful film about two Korean boys in a Chinese town bordering North Korea. DOOMAN RIVER received Crystal Bear Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at the Paris Cinema International Film Festival.

In EIGHTEEN, two young lovers are forbidden from seeing one another until they have completed their studies. EIGHTEEN won the Dragon & Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Nuovo Cinema Award at the Pesaro Film Festival.